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bodice ripper n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) Informal a romantic novel, usually on a historical theme, that involves some sex and violence ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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An interesting story is an interesting story, he says, whether it's a period bodice ripper or a dark comedy about a delusional housewife and the love-struck hit man on her trail. The vast majority of the shop's customers are women who, the Howisons point out, have become such significant consumers of vampire fiction that publishers have begun designing the books in the style of bodice rippers with lusty women in the forefront and the specter of their desire, buffed out and blood thirsty, hovering in the background. Their scholarly work, hers in Padua, his in Rome, was interrupted by rendezvous up and down the Apennines, here recounted as a combination American musical and bodice ripper. |
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